Principia
noun
noun ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 First principles; elementary material. archaic, plural, plural-normally
"1776, Thomas Pownall, in a letter to the economist Adam Smith I do really think, that your book […] might become an institute, containing the principia of those laws of motion, by which the system of the human community is framed and doth act […]"
Example
More examples"Russell is not the only author of Principia Mathematica."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin prī̆ncipia.